'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 18:04 -0700, Tom Jennings wrote: No, it will not print "UNDEFINED" it will print something very well defined. Just not defined by the ANSI or ISO folks. It's defined by your friendly neighborhood compiler writer. In any event it may be stupid (and usually is) to create implementation dependencies like this that a) are non-portable and b) are really hard for joe-code-maintainer to understand without a well-crafted google search. Remember though that there are lots of cases where portability does not matter. And if it's for your personal use joe-coder won't matter either. The only kind of software that matters is software that is compiled and runs on a computer. One can only presume that it is (a) Real compiler(s) and (a) Real computer(s) involved here, so all language implementation and platform specific issues will be settled by reality. The usual logic is to save yourself work later if it's easy to do something different now. But you must always balance that against "You Ain't Gonna Need It." One way to think of it is to maximize laziness while meeting the hard requirements of functionality and schedule. They don't pay you the big bucks to hit the would-be-nices, or to make a 6 level masterpiece of a class hierarchy, and certainly not to write an entry for the obfuscated C contest, but rather to get it done as required, on-time. -- John.